Today we purchased this water filtration/purification system (can you really call it a "system" when it's just two buckets?) because all drinking water must be purified in Tanzania. We even have to brush our teeth with purified water! Some of the possible waterborne diseases are: Typhoid, Hepatitis, Diarrhea, Schistosomiasis, Cholera, and Dysentery. Yuck!
After buying it, I went to the kitchen and drank a glass of water from the faucet. Thank God for clean water!!
Just for fun...
>>Actually, the technology is quite fascinating. The top bucket removes sediment with a 30 micron filter. Then the bottom bucket uses a filter with pentaiodide resin which attracts contaminants in the water and releases just enough iodine to kill the disease. Pretty smart, huh? Yeah, NASA uses it.
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